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I usually use the robusto as barometer of a blend...toro next.

Just my opinion.

you think this is bad, you should see my uneducated opinions... 2 words: "stronger" and "more baffling"...

Corona, lancero, robusto in order of preference but the trend to larger gauges make it harder to find corona and lancero sizes.

Whatever’s in my hand at the moment.

Extremely difficult to argue with that...

Perfecto

Like the long gone Perdomo2 and Cupido Criollo. I have a few of each left but can't bring myself to smoke them because once the are gone, they are gone forever. I should've bought more of these when they were readily available.

Depending on how you define “best”, I’d vote (...if we were doing a poll...) for Corona.

Perfect wrapper-to-filler ratio, ideal length and RG which leads to smoke time of 45 to 60-ish minutes.

Too short you say? Well hey, to paraphrase the great Ernie Banks, “Let’s smoke two!”

Don’t get me wrong, the Lancero is a great vitola too but I’ve had more draw issues with them than Coronas. The PerfecDraw tool will fix a Corona lickety-split but not always the case with the longer, thinner brother. I also need to pay more attention when I smoke a Lancero (...yah, okay, I’mma nOOb so whatja expect?...) and the sometimes l-o-n-g smoke time of close to 2 hours doesn’t always fit the available garage time.

The P2 Torfecto in the Cameroon wrapper was incredible.I'm not sure you could improve on that vitola in that particular cigar..........simply amazing.I'm not a big perfecto fan but Nick's torfecto was second to none.I have a couple maduro robustos fast asleep but I wish they were the torfectos in Cameroon.

Lancero is my fave but toro and robusto are my norms unless cutting the grass and that is Churchill territory

I’ve got a bit of everything. I’m just not a huge ring guage kinda guy. I’ve got a lot of toros in the 50 ring size. I too like lanceros very well. Lately I’ve been buying Coronas. Some of the Coronas is consider corona Gordos. Hmmm.

Keep it around 50 ring guage and I’ll burn it. I even like the 47 ring Churchill pretty well.

Guess I’m not picky.

From a business perspective, wouldn’t you think manufacturers would embrace the smaller vitolas based upon the ability to roll more cigars (...and quicker...) because they use less tobacco? Especially when they have a limited edition, you’d want to increase the number of cigars to sell?

Or maybe not if you have crappy tobacco and just trying to sell them off as quickly as possible.

Lastly, is it just my imagination but whenever I read about people’s favorite vitola size, the vast majority will say smaller RG stogies and rarely ever Gordos or 56RG or greater. So who’s buying the behemoth jawbreakers?

Palama, my understanding is that smaller ring gauge requires more experienced (i.e., more costly) rollers in order to get consistency, hence part of the reason you are more and more jawbreakers: they are cheaper to produce even while using more tobacco.

Yah, I thought of that later. Kinda like back-in-the-day when I tried my hand at rolling the wacky-tabacky. Horribly uneven and definitely larger than what my older brother could roll.

All depends on the blend.

The Rocky Patel Sun Grown Maduro Lancero was lame when compared to the Toro.

The Espinosa Laranja Reserva Lancero was great but didn't seem better than the Toro.

Same with the Southern Draw Rose of Sharon Lancero. Excellent smoke but about =2 the Toro.

Although not a Lancero, but still on the thinner side, the Alec Bradley Prensado Churchill (7" x 48) tastes much better than the 54-ring Toro size.

The Oliva Serie 'V' Lancero also seems to lack good flavor when compared to the 52-Ring Churchill size.

I do think the My Father Habano No. 4 Lancero tastes better than the thicker ring sizes.

Have a Box of 18 of the Cain 'F' Lancero (7" x 38) coming next week. THAT should be great.

I personally like Torpedo/Belicoso/Figurado sizes best. 6" x 52 of bigger.